Time to ban firecrackers IT is time for the Dagupan City government to consider completely banning the manufacture, sale and use of firecrackers in the city. For all intents and purposes, there is no firecracker industry in Dagupan City that needs to be protected. There is only one licensed firecracker…

Wanted: A new brand of People Power AS we bid goodbye to year 2018, and the country is about to decide on who will be the new sets of local government leaders that will govern the countryside, the series of violence that have taken place are clearly politically-motivated killings. As…

Holy Nativity, a lesson in humility ‘TI’S the time for discernment and self-examination. We wonder what most are thinking nowadays when they see the Nativity scene today, the same we’ve been seeing every year in churches, homes, malls, town plazas, etc. for the past decades. And what of the millennials,…

A great year for Dagupan WHEN it rains, it pours for Dagupan City.  We’re not talking about the severe flooding that hit the city two months ago after a series of prolonged rains but the unprecedented number of awards and citations that the city government received over the last30 days….

Reading the riot act to the kapitan ALL the barangay chairmen who attended the provincial forum last week and listened to Local Government UndersecretaryMartin Diño were clearly read the riot act. The barangay officials in attendance merely expected to hear the usual “feel good” message from their boss only to…